They're already making it hard to buy...
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The End is Nigh for XP
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I work for a non-profit, and we discovered last week that Microsoft's Charity OpenLicense program is no longer available for Windows XP or Office 2003. If we want those, we have to pay full price instead of the discounted Charity OL price (which is about 1/4 of the full price). In this particular case, we were attempting to buy a license to use with Parallels on one of our MacBooks, so that our web nerds could test their work on Windows.
What really pisses me off about them dropping the COL program on XP is that the non-profits are generally the ones that can least afford the hardware upgrades to make their existing clients play nice on Vista. On the other hand, it's still cheaper to buy XP even at full price.
Yes, but you don't have the ability to import the mail from an existing Gmail account.
I generally like it a lot. Features it lacks that I'd like to see:
- Import existing Gmail accounts - Import existing IMAP trees (converting folder names to labels) - Filtering functions in the contact list ("label all messages from this group ") - Calendaring (google-hosted iCal? *drool*) - Nicknames and lists to addresses outside the domain - RSS aggregation - Domain aliasing - so I can go to mail.domain.com and have it go natively to google rather than using URL framing or redirects . If I'm at a site whose firewall blocks Gmail (and I run into more and more of those), I'm screwed if it just redirects to or frames mail.google.com.
Yes, the US is similar. When doing avionics maintenance, we had a rectifier to provide us with 28VDC, and a converter to provide 400Hz 3PH aircraft AC (originally, this was an aircraft generator coupled to a 3PH electric motor, but later one it was a solid-state device that provided conditioning as well, and also did the 28VDC all in one unit)
Telecom uses -48VDC because that's been the standard phone power for eons. probably dates back to AGB.
Interestingly enough, the Explorer 8X00 series are based on a MicroSPARC processor (single 160MHz in the 8100s, Dual 250MHz in the 8300s), and the underlying OS is PowerTV, which has a lot of GNU elements and a BSD-based kernel.
The Passport GUI on those things sucks all kinds of ass, though.
There also needs to be a consistent and reliable way (technological or procedural) to make sure that the votes cast on the machine are cast once and only once by a living, breathing legal citizen of the United States who is eligible to vote.
1xRTT (144Kbps) Sprint sells this as "Vision" 1xEVDO (2Mbps) Only Verizon has this, in select markets 1xEVDV (5Mbps) Nobody has this live yet, this is what Sprint's been looking to roll out.
This sounds suspiciously like the digitizer tablets of days gone by... Looking at this wacom puck, I see no batteries, no wires, and a little antenna loop around the crosshairs.
Reminds me of when Microsoft or Logitech (I forget who) touted their innovative "Optical Mouse", almost 20 years after Sun had optical mice.
Just because they were *FROM* SA doesn't mean they were funded by the saudis. They were funded by Bin Ladin and his network, who had support from Saddam Hussein.
Oh, just because Bin Ladin was born in SA, that must mean it's their fault, so we should attack them?
You seem to have a tenuous grip on causality yourself.
Re:Michael Moore is wrong....let me count the ways
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Fahrenheit 9/11 Discussion
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Are you one of these people that thinks more laws will stop criminals, people who have already demonstrated utter contempt for laws?
"Gee, I really want to break the law and shoot this guy, but the law says I can't own an assault weapon".
Never mind that what nobody bothers to mention is that weapons like the AR-15 aren't assault weapons. They're semi-automatic rifles. It's a very important distinction.
Re:Michael Moore is wrong....let me count the ways
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It seems to be really popular amongst the liberal-minded folk to try and always blame someone or something else for anything.
Columbine wasn't the fault of guns, TV, movies, video games, what have you. It was the fault of the two teenagers who did it.
9/11 was the fault of 19 hijackers and the people who funded them.
The latest rape in $city was the fault of the man who perpetrated it, not his parents, his upbringing, whatever.
Whatever happened to the notion of personal responsibility? It's not always someone else's fault, quit trying to blame someone else, and maybe try looking in at yourself for a moment.
Indeed - most ATMs are on 56K dedicated frame relay circuits, sometimes faster (no, they don't use ATM!), but 56K is adequate for most installations.
A lot of the standalone units you see in grocery stroes and such sitting on a dialup line are going away due to new Fed requirements for increased comms security. (Besides, you could put a standalone terminal in a gas station that served only to collect card numbers and PINs, and nobody would know the difference if it looked and quacked like a duck)
*I* don't pay for them, usually getting them from salvage as well. However, were someone (such as my company's clients) to pay for them, that's about what they cost.
Telco frames are dirt cheap - around 100 bucks for a 7' frame, and there's one manufacturer that makes a kit that lets you bolt two together to make a 4-post frame for holding stuff like Dell servers and UPSen.
(why do people compare the price of the most expensive kind of gas, anyway?)
"gas is really expensive here!" (and then you quote the price of the one that's as much as 25 cents more per gallon than the stuff sane people use.
Here's a hint. Your car doesn't need 93 octane. It doesn't need 91. It doesn't even need 89. The only reason you'd need higher octane gas is if you're putting a load on your engine.
Yeah, maybe if you're buying the expensive, organic milk. A gallon of grocery-store-grade milk is usually under 2 bucks, 3 if you get it at a convenience store. If you're paying over 4, it's because you're buying ultra-premium stuff (which I do, because it tastes better)
What stops the dishes from sending is the fact that your LNB can only receive (think of a diode -- I know it's an oversimplification). Sending sat signals requires a whole helluva lot more precision than receiving them, at least when you're talking about alignment. You can transmit simply by putting a radiating element inside a properly tuned waveguide and aiming it. Your LNB simply downconverts the signal to an IF of about 1100 MHz.
If you build the room to a 2-hour fire rating (usually, two layes of 5/8" sheetrock, metal fire-rated doors, and sealing all breaches in the drywall with firestop, you'll go a long way toward protecting your gear - Two hours is usually about 3-4 times longer than it takes the fire department to get respond and get the fire out.
Your local architect/builder/codes geek can enlighten you on this.
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I work for a non-profit, and we discovered last week that Microsoft's Charity OpenLicense program is no longer available for Windows XP or Office 2003. If we want those, we have to pay full price instead of the discounted Charity OL price (which is about 1/4 of the full price). In this particular case, we were attempting to buy a license to use with Parallels on one of our MacBooks, so that our web nerds could test their work on Windows.
What really pisses me off about them dropping the COL program on XP is that the non-profits are generally the ones that can least afford the hardware upgrades to make their existing clients play nice on Vista. On the other hand, it's still cheaper to buy XP even at full price.
Yes, but you don't have the ability to import the mail from an existing Gmail account.
I generally like it a lot. Features it lacks that I'd like to see:
- Import existing Gmail accounts
- Import existing IMAP trees (converting folder names to labels)
- Filtering functions in the contact list ("label all messages from this group ")
- Calendaring (google-hosted iCal? *drool*)
- Nicknames and lists to addresses outside the domain
- RSS aggregation
- Domain aliasing - so I can go to mail.domain.com and have it go natively to google rather than using URL framing or redirects . If I'm at a site whose firewall blocks Gmail (and I run into more and more of those), I'm screwed if it just redirects to or frames mail.google.com.
A fool and his money are soon parted...
as well they should be, fools shouldn't be allowed to keep it.
Yes, the US is similar. When doing avionics maintenance, we had a rectifier to provide us with 28VDC, and a converter to provide 400Hz 3PH aircraft AC (originally, this was an aircraft generator coupled to a 3PH electric motor, but later one it was a solid-state device that provided conditioning as well, and also did the 28VDC all in one unit)
Telecom uses -48VDC because that's been the standard phone power for eons. probably dates back to AGB.
The only problem I have with IMAP and T-bird on multiple machines is keeping the settings and filters in synch from one client to the next.
As of the acquisition, SFA's market share for set-tops was about 50%.
Interestingly enough, the Explorer 8X00 series are based on a MicroSPARC processor (single 160MHz in the 8100s, Dual 250MHz in the 8300s), and the underlying OS is PowerTV, which has a lot of GNU elements and a BSD-based kernel.
The Passport GUI on those things sucks all kinds of ass, though.
Motorola is the other big player.
There also needs to be a consistent and reliable way (technological or procedural) to make sure that the votes cast on the machine are cast once and only once by a living, breathing legal citizen of the United States who is eligible to vote.
Yes, the backhaul is shared, just like any other network connection - at some point, it's gotta get aggregated.
in the CDMA world, packet data is either:
1xRTT (144Kbps) Sprint sells this as "Vision"
1xEVDO (2Mbps) Only Verizon has this, in select markets
1xEVDV (5Mbps) Nobody has this live yet, this is what Sprint's been looking to roll out.
This sounds suspiciously like the digitizer tablets of days gone by... Looking at this wacom puck, I see no batteries, no wires, and a little antenna loop around the crosshairs.
Reminds me of when Microsoft or Logitech (I forget who) touted their innovative "Optical Mouse", almost 20 years after Sun had optical mice.
Glad to hear it. There are too many of the kind I described.
Enforcement is key. There's no point in passing a law and feeling good about it if nobody's going to enforce it.
"So we SHOULD HAVE ATTACKED SAUDI ARABIA!"
Just because they were *FROM* SA doesn't mean they were funded by the saudis. They were funded by Bin Ladin and his network, who had support from Saddam Hussein.
Oh, just because Bin Ladin was born in SA, that must mean it's their fault, so we should attack them?
You seem to have a tenuous grip on causality yourself.
Are you one of these people that thinks more laws will stop criminals, people who have already demonstrated utter contempt for laws?
"Gee, I really want to break the law and shoot this guy, but the law says I can't own an assault weapon".
Never mind that what nobody bothers to mention is that weapons like the AR-15 aren't assault weapons. They're semi-automatic rifles. It's a very important distinction.
It seems to be really popular amongst the liberal-minded folk to try and always blame someone or something else for anything.
Columbine wasn't the fault of guns, TV, movies, video games, what have you. It was the fault of the two teenagers who did it.
9/11 was the fault of 19 hijackers and the people who funded them.
The latest rape in $city was the fault of the man who perpetrated it, not his parents, his upbringing, whatever.
Whatever happened to the notion of personal responsibility? It's not always someone else's fault, quit trying to blame someone else, and maybe try looking in at yourself for a moment.
Indeed - most ATMs are on 56K dedicated frame relay circuits, sometimes faster (no, they don't use ATM!), but 56K is adequate for most installations.
A lot of the standalone units you see in grocery stroes and such sitting on a dialup line are going away due to new Fed requirements for increased comms security. (Besides, you could put a standalone terminal in a gas station that served only to collect card numbers and PINs, and nobody would know the difference if it looked and quacked like a duck)
*I* don't pay for them, usually getting them from salvage as well. However, were someone (such as my company's clients) to pay for them, that's about what they cost.
Telco frames are dirt cheap - around 100 bucks for a 7' frame, and there's one manufacturer that makes a kit that lets you bolt two together to make a 4-post frame for holding stuff like Dell servers and UPSen.
Yeesh.
(why do people compare the price of the most expensive kind of gas, anyway?)
"gas is really expensive here!" (and then you quote the price of the one that's as much as 25 cents more per gallon than the stuff sane people use.
Here's a hint. Your car doesn't need 93 octane. It doesn't need 91. It doesn't even need 89. The only reason you'd need higher octane gas is if you're putting a load on your engine.
Good god, whaere the hell do you live that groceries are so damned expensive? Move already.
Sheesh, the expensive places here charge 3 bucks for the half gallons, and I get locally produced for cheaper than that.
Yeah, maybe if you're buying the expensive, organic milk. A gallon of grocery-store-grade milk is usually under 2 bucks, 3 if you get it at a convenience store. If you're paying over 4, it's because you're buying ultra-premium stuff (which I do, because it tastes better)
What stops the dishes from sending is the fact that your LNB can only receive (think of a diode -- I know it's an oversimplification). Sending sat signals requires a whole helluva lot more precision than receiving them, at least when you're talking about alignment. You can transmit simply by putting a radiating element inside a properly tuned waveguide and aiming it. Your LNB simply downconverts the signal to an IF of about 1100 MHz.
But, since he can't spell, he'll fit in just fine.
If you build the room to a 2-hour fire rating (usually, two layes of 5/8" sheetrock, metal fire-rated doors, and sealing all breaches in the drywall with firestop, you'll go a long way toward protecting your gear - Two hours is usually about 3-4 times longer than it takes the fire department to get respond and get the fire out.
Your local architect/builder/codes geek can enlighten you on this.